• Asana Anatomy-Chaturanga Dandasana
    Asana Anatomy-Chaturanga Dandasana

    Author Dr. Robin Armstrong

    You're finishing up your yoga class, you can almost feel savasana coming, then the teacher instructs you to perform one last vinyasa. As you step back to plank pose, and begin to lower down into Chaturanga or four legged staff pose, your shoulders dip forward from fatigue and your core refuses to co-operate as your belly sags to the floor. Chaturanga is an important, and even enjoyable, part of sun salutations and vinyasa flows. Let's dissect this asana.
  • Addressing Our Scapular Stabilizers
    Addressing Our Scapular Stabilizers

    Author Dr Carla Cupido

    Developing Our Scapular Stabilizers to Prevent Shoulder Injury:   What constitutes a shoulder joint that is prone to injury? Could it be weak rotator cuff musculature? Maybe it is joint laxity and instability? What about capsular restrictions or the work we do on a regular basis? Or, is it possible that weak scapular stabilizers could play a role in shoulder injury? All of the above reasons could contribute as the cause of a shoulder injury.
  • Managing Plantar Fasciitis
    Managing Plantar Fasciitis

    Author Dr Carla Cupido

    Plantar fasciitis is a condition that affects an assortment of individuals. It plagues those who are highly involved in sports as well as those who are sedentary and often a bit overweight. Despite the variety of people it targets, one and all feel the same: frustrated! Fortunately, it can be a simple condition to manage. For those of you who have evaded an attack of the dreaded plantar fasciitis and are not quite sure what it is, here is an explanation for you.
  • High Blood Pressure and Inversions
    High Blood Pressure and Inversions

    Author Kreg Weiss, B HKin

    The practice of Yoga poses (Hatha Yoga) offers tremendous health and wellness benefits, but certain health conditions require important modifications and omissions of specific asanas. High blood pressure is a serious health condition that generates many possible contraindications especially in Yoga postures that invert the head below the level of the heart. High blood pressure (or hypertension) is the occurrence of abnormally high arterial blood pressure at resting state.
  • Yoga and Developing Proprioception
    Yoga and Developing Proprioception

    Author Dr Carla Cupido

    Balance plays a pivotal role in our lives whether we notice it or not. We are constantly bombarded with external forces that disrupt our equilibrium. So much so, that we often fail to notice, as our bodies are so effectively equipped to deal with such disturbances. We do, however, notice when our systems fail us, resulting in injury or an embarrassing moment, or even worse, both!
  • Prenatal Yoga and Vocal Toning
    Prenatal Yoga and Vocal Toning

    Author Ariel Pavic

    When you are pregnant you exercise to tone your muscles, you do yoga, you eat right to keep healthy, you practice your kegals to tone the birthing canal, so why not tone your voice. Singers do it, public speakers do it, and often times, we tone our voices without really knowing that is what we are doing. So just what is vocal toning anyways? Vocal toning is can be one of the most VALUABLE tools for the birthing mom.
  • Yoga and Chiropractic
    Yoga and Chiropractic

    Author Dr Carla Cupido

    Balance is the medicine for a healthy life. Both yoga and chiropractic center many of their principles on the idea of balance. In yoga, balance exists among sthira (steadiness and alertness) and sukha (the ability to remain comfortable in a posture), pose and counterpose, and prana (the breath that enters the body) and apana (the breath that exits the body).